Re: OT: personal stories

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

Many good hearted leftists are leftists because they cannot see or do not think
about second order, or third order, or N order effects. They get stuck at the
immediate problem and do not think of how the consequences of their immediate,
knee jerk, solution will cause more pain down the line. This is sad. =(

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Quite right.  And there is the folly of rewarding A while hoping for B.
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 Kerr, Steven. ``On the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B.''
 Academy of Management journal 18.4 (1975): 769-783.

True!

Then of course you have evil leftists who are fully aware of this, and
are leftists due to political power gains.

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And there's the post-modernist movement, with their sheer nonsense and
confusion, that finds good reception in such groups---probably more so
than in others.

It will destroy itself in time. Since they have abandoned objective truth, and
built their ethos on being the most vulnerable group, they will go down in
flames and in fighting, since nothing can be resolved without any kind of
objective truth to ground discussions. Sadly it takes time.

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We should check whether she really got the money.  Getting a lawsuit
your way doesn't imply an increase in the checking account balance
(until later).

Also true!